Five favorite ARCADE games available in MAME

[brianon]

I love these threads. I know there is allot of duplication with others but still :)
What would be a good idea is a Desert Island type selection. You only have 5 arcade games for the rest of your life ... now pick :)

Ms.Pac-Man
Donkey Kong
Tetris
Street Fighter Alpha 3
DoDonPachi

[WeirdH]

Oh man, I love these threads, they're a great way to discover new gems. My list:

• Bubble Bobble
• Bosconian
• Donkey Kong
• Fast Lane
• Any Metal Slug

[DorkVonWaterfall]

Psychic 5
Bubble Bobble
Mag Max
Wonderboy in Monsterland
Jackal

[langest]

@IanDaemon
Found Giga Wing which I also enjoyed.

It's similar to DonPachi, but you don't need to turn your tv on the side to fit the screen.

[VictimRLSH]

@langest It's not in my Top 5, but I definitely play it frequently.

[tpo1990]

My top five classic MAME games from golden age.

• Tapper
• Joust
• Gauntlet
• Robotron
• Rampage

[ClassicGMR]

Mine (in no order)

• Punch-Out!
• Mania Challenge
• Spy Hunter
• Star Trek: Strategic Operations Simulator
• Star Wars

[skeighter]

Satan's Hollow
Two Tigers
Wizard of Wor
Time Pilot
Cabal

[IanDaemon]

@tpo1990 Those are some great titles.

• I recently put Tapper on my cocktail cabinet and, although I find it a stressful game, it's great to have the "Budweiser" licensed version on my arcade cocktail (tabletop) cabinet.
• Robotron: 2084 is a classic. I'm really glad I got that game working with two joysticks.
• I bought the first "Arcade1Up" cabinet and it includes Rampage, Joust, and Gauntlet! (It also has Defender, but I find the original control scheme tough to use.)

[Impman66]

A lot of my favourite games were on the Atari and Amiga, ported from original arcade games. So in no particular order;

Donkey Kong
Pac-Man
Tempest
Bubble Bobble
Rainbow Islands

Remember playing Tempest in the arcade, not having a clue on what I was doing (just spinning the spinner and firing - the equivalent of button mashing) yet managed to get the highest score :-)

[tpo1990]

@IanDaemon Yes I feel that any arcade owner should at least have those classic titles. Defender is a cool game although I'm not a big fan of it. I also find it hard to use the control scheme.

You could easily mention more than five great arcade games but those are the one that comes to my mind.

[pjft]

Well, if necro-ing is allowed here, here are some of mine:

• Final Fight
• DoDonPachi
• Elevator Action 2 (does the Rolling Thunder thing with a lot of style)
• Bubble Bobble
• OutRun

If I only had 5 games on my setup, these would very likely be the ones. I love several of the ones that have been mentioned so far, and I left a handful out of the list, but I'm happy with this one.

[Great_Snake]

Off topic, how do you add a topic to a post? I'm trying to ask a question and I can't add a topic, so I can't post.

[Impman66]

@Great_Snake said in Five favorite ARCADE games available in MAME:

Off topic, how do you add a topic to a post? I'm trying to ask a question and I can't add a topic, so I can't post.

If you click on the "in tray icon (the first one after the joystick. it shows unread topics, and you should see new topic there. You have to give it a category (help, projects) and assign soe tags in order to post.

[Great_Snake]

@Impman66 I appreciate the reply, and I see the tags, but still have no idea how to add a topic to my post.
edit: Just got it, lol only took me half an hour.

[Rion]

Final Fight "Loosely based on the movie Streets Of Fire (1984)"
Raiden DX
Gun.Smoke
Robotron 2084
Metal Slug X

[Clyde]

@Rion said in Five favorite ARCADE games available in MAME:

The Metal Slug series

Hey, no cheating! The topic clearly says "games", no series. 😜

[Rion]

@Clyde said in Five favorite ARCADE games available in MAME:

@Rion said in Five favorite ARCADE games available in MAME:

The Metal Slug series

Hey, no cheating! The topic clearly says "games", no series. 😜

Opps. 😜

[Ashpool]

Really Tough, there are at least a dozen games that are on par with the following list of mine

• Phoenix
• Mappy
• Elevator Action
• Donkey Kong 3
• Hyper Sports

And nowadays (thanks to the lockdown situation of late) that my Daughter really loves to play 'em CoOp, i am inclined to switch 4/5 with (as 1/2):

• Bubble Bobble
• Bubble Bobble II (Bubble Symphony)

[james.milroy]

@IanDaemon Thought I'd add my tuppence worth:

In the arcade back in the day I'd play in no particular order:

Robotron
Gauntlet
Salamander
Star Wars
Outrun

On my bartop under mame I play:

Robotron
Nemesis/Gradius
R-Type
Salamander
Star Wars (on a dedicated cabinet with a yoke!)